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It is bigger than zlatan
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Greta Thunberg continues to strike for the weather on Fridays even during the corona pandemic.
Describes his life as a bad movie. “The plot is unthinkable,” says Greta Thunberg in the new documentary that opens in Swedish corona cinemas this Friday. The film has already been screened in festivals and cinemas around the world. Almost the last time he went to the cinema here in Sweden. It is symptomatic of how Greta Thunberg’s homeland has treated her as a person and her climate commitment all along. Here the law of the rooster prevails.
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In the stunning close-up film, we can follow Greta Thunberg and her father Svante through their unlikely experiences last year. With the message that the world is on fire and that we must listen to scientists to stop climate change, daughter and father have traveled the country and the kingdom by train, electric car and boat.
You know the story, it was completely new. Just over a year ago, thousands of people were able to gather in groups and protest together. Fridays for Future became a worldwide mass movement. The streets were filled with posters to “Make the world Greta again” on every continent except Antarctica.
Greta Thunberg spoke to the UN, met with Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and the Pope. Even power figures she hasn’t met speak of her. Putin, Bolsonaro and Trump have used her as a bat because they fear the power of the opposition to the pollution policy they pursue.
But here at home, the reception has not been so encouraging or interesting. Macron employees are clearly surprised when Greta Thunberg says she hasn’t even met with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven.
You too become a spectator.
Bigger than zlatan
Some might say Zlatan, but otherwise Greta is the Swede that most people in the world know by name. But unlike our soccer star, Greta Thunberg has started a movement and created awareness and knowledge of what is correctly described as the fate of our planet. It is a great achievement.
In early December, Greta Thunberg will be the editor-in-chief of Dagens Nyheter one day. The content of the magazine should focus on investigative journalism, less on texts like this, that is, opinion-forming material, he explained. This caused DN’s main competitor, Svenska Dagbladet, to relax and claim that such a move threatens free journalism.
There are many objections to that reasoning. First, there are significantly worse things that threaten free journalism today. Second, Greta Thunberg is not an activist with an agenda that any insidious person can benefit from. She says the way we live is unsustainable for the climate and common solutions are needed to change it. It refers to consensus in research, it should not be controversial.
But in Sweden we have our old and old jealousy. Greta Thunberg may not be a prophet in her home country, but she is changing the world.
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